Community Action Plan and Local Place Plan Consultation

In March, a broad community consultation was carried out to gather views from people in Old Luce on their priorities for the community for the coming decade. A big thank you to everyone who contributed to the formulation of our Community Action Plan and Local Led Place Plan. This public consultation was enthusiastically steered by Barbara Chalmers from Only Human, who has also helped achieve some fantastic results around the proposed regeneration of Stranraer. If you took time out of your busy lives to complete our online survey, attend a drop in or public session in Old Luce, or engage in a one-on-one chat with Barbara, thank you very much for your valuable input.

We have also been excited to work with Charlotte Wilson around the socio-economic aspect of bringing to life a 10 year vision for Old Luce. Charlotte is a highly experienced researcher with a demonstrated history of working across a number of industries to deliver insightful research and valuable data. To help promote the area and understand more about the needs of visitors to our area, we wanted to understand more about who they are, where they are visiting from and how long they are staying. This helps make the case for increased availability of accommodation where needed and ultimately help make our area more appealing to visitors for the future. As part of this process, Charlotte engaged with local accommodation providers and their visitor data. This was very informative and will be included in the final Community Action Plan / Local Led Place Plan.

All these consultation activities will help identify priorities for community groups and the Council for our area, and guide us in our focus on various improvements and benefits for Old Luce over the next decade.